The Party of Bill Kristol and Angela Davis
Joe Biden pulled off a tricky balancing act last night. Now he has to keep it up until November.
Anyone seeking a metaphor for the current Democratic Party could find one in the final night of this year’s Democratic National Convention. It was an often-dizzying mix of the solemn and the silly, veering between themes and ideas without a clear direction, and unified only by Joe Biden, who delivered a strong acceptance speech to close the night and the convention.
If he’s going to succeed in November, and as president after that, Biden will have to pull off the same trick, keeping together a coalition that ranges from Bill Kristol and John Kasich to Angela Davis and. Last night’s program hinted at how hard that will be, but it also showed how Biden will try, and demonstrated how he to snag the Democratic nomination.
